Kent,
hmm... sounds like the user may not be part of the cdrom group, or there
may not be a cdrom group entirely... when your logged in, type groups at the
command line, and it should display the groups that users belongs to, do that
as root, and see if there is a cdrom group.
Jamie
On Friday 19 October 2001 08:42 pm, you wrote:
> On Thursday 18 October 2001 00:22, you wrote:
> > Kent,
> > Do you want to change the rights on the file? device? I think what you
> > really want is to change the way the device is mounted, not the rights.
> > Heres the way mandrake mounts cdroms, so users can access them, and so
> > they can be opened/changed w/out using a mount command...
> >
> > try this entry in your /etc/fstab, comment out your other line for the
> > cd, and add this one...
> > /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0
>
> This is what my /etc/fstab file contains. Well almost, actually its:
>
> /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/cdrom,fs=iso9660 0 0
>
> > then unmount /dev/cdrom
> > then mount -a (this reads the fstab to mount all mount points)
> >
> > all of the above will have to be done as root (hehe scissors cool!)
> >
> > Jamie
> >
> > On Friday 19 October 2001 10:23 am, you wrote:
> > > How do I set my access rights so I can access my CD-ROM?
> > >
> > > When I check my rights on /dev/cdrom it says that it is owned by root
> > > but user, group, and other all have read, write, and execute rights to
> > > it.
> > >
> > > The /dev directory shows other with read and execute rights to it. So
> > > it seems to me that I should be able to access this CD-ROM to play
> > > music from it.
